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"About nineteen, sir, or goin' an twenty; but he's a, heart-scald to me and the family although he's his mother's pet; the divil can't stand him for dress and, moreover, he's given to liquor and card-playin', and is altogether goin' to the bad.
And he thought they might be the very men who had carried off the Spae-Woman's goose and the Crystal Egg along with it. "Would you tell me, good woman," said Gilly, "did your six honest men ever bring to this house an old hatching goose?" "They did indeed," said the crooked woman, "and a heart-scald the same old hatching goose is.
Why didn't he put the letter into his pocket, and keep it until he came home? He seems to have lost his common sense. And then he must go off into that rigmarole about Mr. Lyon, and try to make him out a saint, as if to encourage you to give his letter to Fanny. I've no patience with him! Mr. Lyon, indeed! If he doesn't have a heart-scald of him before he's done with him, I'm no prophet.
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